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for "Milling, Marla Hardee"
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23731
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Susie Hamrick Jones is executive director of the Foothill's Conservancy of North Carolina, based in Morganton. Jones works to prevent developers from dividing large wooded areas and she also pushes for restrictions on tree removal.
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WNC Magazine
(NoCar F261 .W64), Vol. 2 Issue 2, March/April 2008,
p68-75, il, por
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9606
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William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil, Jr. and Diana Cecil Pickering, great-grandchildren of George Vanderbilt, the builder of Biltmore House and Estate, discuss growing up there and later becoming part of the family business that runs it.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 75 Issue 6, Nov 2007,
p72-74, 76, 78-79, il, por
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23772
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Valle Crucis' Mast General Store was reopened by John Cooper in 1980. The store in Valle Crucis was originally opened in 1883 and is a historical icon in the town.
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23635
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Author Jan Karon, of the 'Mitford' novel series, helped to bring Blowing Rock into the national spotlight with her tales based in a fictional town on the popular travel attraction.
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WNC Magazine
(NoCar F261 .W64), Vol. 1 Issue 5, November/December 2007,
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7214
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Using the alphabet, the writers describe twenty-six interesting places to visit during the summer months. These include the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, Bost Grist Mill, Charlotte Trolley Museum, Doughton Park, and the Zebulon Latimer House Museum.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 1, June 2005,
p78-84, 86-88, 90-92, il
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7257
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Toymaker Harold Garrison hand-carves old-time toys, like the hillbilly yo-yo and the gee haw whimmy diddle. Garrison is in his eighty-second year, stands 6'10,†and still lives at his old homeplace in Weaverville. His carving titled “Government Machines†earned him a spot in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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7707
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The Appalachian Archives at Mars Hill College contains a wide range of genealogical treasures. The majority of the collection focuses on families in western North Carolina. Other items include census records; a scrapbook on famed folk musician Bascom Lamar Lunsford; an extremely rare 1890s publication of the complete collection of the War of the Rebellion; and North Carolina newspapers on microfilm. The collection is expanding digitally to make the material accessible in the library or from home.
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Milling discusses the work and creations of Debbie Littledeer, a graduate of Mars Hill College, who creates silkscreens that feature Appalachian scenes--Blue Ridge Mountains, wildlife, trees, and flowers. Littledeer uses up to eighteen different colors in her limited edition prints, but blue and lavender are preferred. Milling describes the process for making a silkscreen.
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8768
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Panthertown Valley, covering six thousand acres in Jackson, Macon, and Transylvania Counties in western North Carolina, is an ecological treasure with rare plants and animals. The valley was damaged by heavy logging in the 1920s, and in the 1960s, under great pressure from developers who wanted to turn it into a resort and vacation area. Duke Power purchased it in 1987 to build a high-voltage transmission line. In 1989, the North Carolina Chapter of the Nature Conservancy paid Duke Power $8 million for the 6,000-acre tract. Today, through preservation efforts, the valley has regained its wild beauty.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 11, Apr 2007,
p106-108, 110, 112, 114-115, il
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7392
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Not yet thirty years of age, Joshua P. Warren of Asheville is an internationally known expert on things paranormal. He has authored eight books, written newspaper articles, and explored almost one thousand paranormal locations. He has seen an apparition only once. He is the founder and president of the League of Energy Materialization and Unexplained phenomena Research (L.E.M.U.R.). This team of researchers conducts investigations using high-tech devices, including electromagnetic field detection, infrared and ultraviolet photography, sub-sonic audio recording, and three-dimensional photography.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 5, Oct 2005,
p148-150, 152, 154, 156, il
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22397
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Roy Williams, coach of the University of North Carolina's basketball team, reminisces about his roots in Western North Carolina and as coach at North Carolina and Kansas.
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23667
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Chef Bill Morris works at the Broyhill Inn and Appalachian Conference Center in Boone, North Carolina and teaches students the art of cooking.
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WNC Magazine
(NoCar F261 .W64), Vol. 2 Issue 9, November/December 2008,
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8879
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Milling discusses the artwork of Jeff Pittman, who lives in Fletcher in Henderson County. He grew up exposed to art. His father, Bob Pittman, is a highly regarded painter who lives in Greenville, and his mother Claire Pittman is a poet and history professor at East Carolina University. Besides his landscape paintings, Pittman has carved out a popular niche as a painter of city skylines and has painted skylines of Chicago, New York, Nashville, Charlotte, Raleigh, and Wilmington. Presently, he is concentrating his work on the state's mountains and the skyline and street scenes of downtown Asheville.
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23637
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Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist Billy Graham, discusses his childhood and what led him to follow his father's footsteps to the pulpit.
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WNC Magazine
(NoCar F261 .W64), Vol. 1 Issue 5, November/December 2007,
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10701
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At one time general stores functioned as a community's hub. Townspeople gathered there to buy supplies and talk about anything in the town. These store have mostly disappeared from the landscape, being replaced by mass marketing and big-box retailers. Milling describes some that carry on the old general store tradition. They are Buchanan's Store Manson), Fred's General Mercantile (Beech Mountain), Ronnie's Country Store (Winston-Salem), N.C. Clampitt Hardware (Bryson City), Z.A.K.'S of Mallardtown USA (Trenton), and the Senior's Country Store (Welcome).
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